Mas Candi Penedes Corpinnat Brut Nature 2022 NO20230614 and the wine spends eleven

and the wine spends eleven months split evenly between old 30hl foudre and two- to three-year-old barrels

no new oak

at the beach

in a small glass

The bottling is assembled from five Marsannay parcels

Mas Candi Penedes Corpinnat Brut Nature 2022 NO20230614 and the wine spends elevenCava has a factory problem, and this is the antidote. Mas Candi is a four person winemaking collective in the Penedes, something like the Catalan answer to Envinate, and at its 2006 inception it was making some of the only true grower Cava anywhere. They have since walked away from the Cava DO entirely in favor of Corpinnat, which demands organic farming, hand harvesting, mostly indigenous grapes and long aging before release. This Brut Nature is led